Africa-Press – South-Africa. South Africa’s Covid-19 test positivity rate hit 22% on Sunday.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 3 838 new Covid-19 cases in the country, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 795 763.
KZN health MEC concerned about the increase in Covid-19 cases in province
This increase represents a 22.0% positivity rate.
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng.
The NICD also reported an increase of 44 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
Last week, News24 reported that Health Minister Joe Phaahla had said there had been a continuous rise in infections over the past two weeks, with new cases clustered in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. These three provinces accounted for around 85% of all new cases.
However, the authorities remain uncertain if the spike in Covid-19 numbers is the start of the fifth wave or simply a resurgence caused by increased travel during the Easter long weekend and other religious holidays.
Health experts had initially predicted that South Africa’s next wave would be driven by a new variant and would start in the middle of May.
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